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Despite promises to curb power rationing, much of China is on the brink of the worst energy shortages for years, as insufficient coal supply, rising coal prices and waning hydropower capacity are set to affect power output before the summer peak. Do the blackouts signal deeper structural problems for China’s energy future? This commentary for […]
Disputed project seen as a must for modernization.
Water-rich region, though, is getting dryer.
Clearly wary about the consequences of its rapid economic development on the environment, China has set a path over the next five years to reduce consumption of the two most important resources that power its economy— coal and water. The country plans to rein in water use and introduces new energy intensity reduction targets in pursuit of more sustainable economic growth, according to the draft proposal of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the master economic blueprint that will chart China’s development through 2015.
A gallery of images from Choke Point: China, a new water-energy series about the tightening noose that could choke off China’s modernization.
Crop shortages are just another ingredient in an explosive mix that might fire up social and political unrest à la Tunisia and Egypt in other parts of the world, the Guardian reports. As the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced that food prices hit a record high for a seventh consecutive month, world media are […]
Collaboration to focus on water, energy, and climate in China and Great Lakes. Immersive program puts advanced students in the center of “one of the decade’s biggest news, policy, and technology issues.”
House committee holds hearing on climate change as climate negotiators meet in Cancun.
Without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change.
China attempts to move forward with its clean energy ambitions.
Indigenous leaders from Amazon rainforests to Bayou swamplands.
The new global order looks more like a global disorder right now.
